Speedo innovation: Swimwear companies have invested millions designing high-performance suits for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster? Following the 2004 Athens Olympics‚ officials at swimwear giant Speedo had good reason to celebrate: Athletes clad in their latest suits at the time‚ called Fastskin FSII‚ won 46 medals in the pool. Yet when the company ’s in-house design team‚ Aqualab‚ gathered soon after the games at company headquarters in Nottingham‚ Britain
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1002/smj.1959 Received 29 May 2009; Final revision received 20 January 2012 RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMENTARIES HOW KNOWLEDGE AFFECTS RADICAL INNOVATION: KNOWLEDGE BASE‚ MARKET KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION‚ AND INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING KEVIN ZHENG ZHOU1 * and CAROLINE BINGXIN LI2 1 2 School of Business‚ University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong Daniels College of Business‚ University of Denver‚ Denver‚ Colorado‚ U.S.A. This paper examines how existing knowledge base (i.e.‚ knowledge breadth and depth)
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Reinventing your business model Summary by Armen Sargsyan Business innovations have reshaped entire industries and redistributed billions of dollars of value. However‚ stories of business model innovation from well-established companies are rare as new business models often look unattractive to internal and external stakeholders. Business models consist of four interlocking elements that taken together
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Reinventing Your Business Model The article “Reinventing Your Business Model” talks about the importance of adapting effective business model in shaping the success of the business. He talks about the success and failure stories of different businesses where the thin line between the success and failure of firm had been effective business model which fits with the business. Firms like Apple‚ Wal-Mart are able to generate large profits and even reshape the definition of business just by innovating
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Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. © Peter Drucker. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. © Steve Jobs‚ Apple. As time goes on‚ nothing remains the same in our world. Seasons‚ weather‚ relationships‚ human emotions‚ everything is affected by time- everything keeps changing. The same thing is in market industry. The progress is unstoppable and
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PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT OR INNOVATION: WHAT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN TOURISM? by Klaus Weiermair Professor and Head of the Center for Tourism and Service Economics University of Innsbruck Abstract This paper is built like a three–layered club house sandwich with the first layer providing some theoretical and conceptual insights regarding expected innovation behaviour in tourism based on available material in tourism and industrial economics. The second layer will provide empirical insights and/or testing
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Models for Change Business Process Reengineering Assess Business Strategy Like many other approaches‚ BPR claims to align organisation change (and IT development) with business strategy. This is important because BPR concentrates of improving processes which are of primary strategic importance. The assumption is that strategy is already determined‚ and that it is externally focussed‚ dealing with customers‚ products‚ suppliers and markets. BPR is quite distinct from strategic planning.
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thought into reality. Innovation means applying those thoughts in to work. Innovations don’t always have to be completely new ideas. The term innovation rather means the implementation of something new and results in a noticeable improvement for the user. There are different forms of corporate innovations: Product innovation‚ Process innovation‚ Market innovation‚ Structural innovation and Cultural innovation. (Disselkamp‚ 2005). A commonly used classification for innovations is the product/service
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Open Innovation Innovation and entrepreneurship are at the heart of "creative destruction". In his book‚ Open Innovation‚ Henry Chesbrough describes a new paradigm of open innovation that is in contrast to the traditional closed model. To understand open innovation‚ it is worthwhile to review the older model of closed innovation. The Closed Innovation Model Under the concept of innovation that prevailed during most of the 20th century‚ companies attained competitive advantage by funding large
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disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation was coined by Clayton Christensen. It explains the process of a product or service preliminary application initiating from the bottom of the market that replaces an already established product or service. (????) This theory has created a significant impact on management practices in all types of industries. It has created debates of how “executives and managers are in need of research that will elevate the pursuit of successful innovations from a gut-level
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